FICTION
Released: Sept. 30, 2003
"Assembly-line legal thriller: flat characters, lame scene-setting, and short but somehow interminable action: a lifeless concoction."
Two defrocked Secret Service Agents investigate the assassination of one presidential candidate and the kidnapping of another.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 25, 2005
"Sure to be a bestseller, but the guy's phoning it in."
A lukewarm would-be potboiler of uninvolving intrigue about a kooky quartet of conspiracy theorists--one by the name of "Oliver Stone"--who witness the murder of a federal agent.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 17, 2006
"A tepid follow-up to The Camel Club (2005), with few surprises."
Helped by a beautiful grifter, the "Camel Club"--the four-man band of conspiracy theorists--returns to battle a threat to national security.
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FICTION
Released: April 24, 2007
"Lamer than usual. Has the formula at last run thin enough to keep Baldacci off the bestseller list?"
Murders, kidnappings, international conspiracies, internecine warfare between alphabet agencies, mad scientists and, oh yes, buried treasure, as Baldacci pours it on.
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 6, 2007
"Baldacci (Simple Genius, 2007, etc.) can do this stuff in his sleep now, but it's still entertaining enough."
Baldacci's recurring Camel Club uses its special talents to help a scam artist in distress.
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 4, 2008
"Tighter than the writer's most recent efforts, but far from spellbinding."
Baldacci (
The Whole Truth, 2008, etc.) moves his recurring Camel Club characters far enough offstage to let tough guy hero Oliver Stone take on a mean mountain town singlehandedly (for a while, at least) in something of the fashion of Lee Child's Jack Reacher.
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